Clinical Trials Seminar Series
CCT has been conducting a series of lunchtime seminars since May 2001 to provide frontline research staff -- including investigators, study coordinators, research nurses ˇV with the latest data on Clinical Trial Methods and Good Clinical Practice. The series is also open to pharmaceutical industry personnel. Since 2005, CCT has been working with the Society of Clinical Research Associate (SoCRA) Hong Kong Chapter to co-ordinate two educational sessions each year. In year 2006, CCT arranged a series of seminars on the application of SAS programming in clinical research.

Training Workshops & Programmes
CCT continues to offer GCP, IRB, and clinical trial methodology training courses and workshops for academic and public sector clinical researchers. We have also developed a comprehensive Web-based biostatistics programme which is accessible to the entire research community to perform basic statistical analysis.
Good Clinical Practice (GCP) General Training
CCT organizes clinical trial workshops from time to time to allow participants to understand the basic principles of GCP, clinical trial management and clinical trial designs. The workshops further enhance the clinical research knowledge of the frontline research staff, as well as the pharmaceutical industry.
Investigatorsˇ¦ Training
CCT has been working with the Hospital Authority to offer a series of training programmes for Clinical Investigators and other clinical research professionals. The programmes are designed to give clinical researchers an overview of how to conduct clinical research based on ICH-GCP guidelines. The programme familiarizes participants with GCP guidelines and shows them how to implement regulations and guidelines to produce quality clinical research.

Ethics Committee Training
CCT has also been working with the Hospital Authority and a number of Academic Institutions in China to offer a series of training programmes for clinical researchers who are interested in ethical issues surrounding clinical trials. The programme familiarizes participants with ethical guidelines and how they should apply these guidelines to produce ethical clinical research results.
GCP for Traditional Chinese Medicine
CCT works with the Hospital Authority to offer training for clinical Chinese medicine researchers. The programme was designed to give Chinese medicine researchers an overview of clinical research based on ICH-GCP guidelines, and how they apply these guidelines to produce quality clinical research in the field of Chinese medicine.
Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP )
ACRP aims to provide global leadership for the clinical research profession by promoting and advancing the highest ethical standards and practices. ACRP is the primary resource of data for clinical research professionals in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries, as well as those in hospitals, academic medical centers, and private physicians.
CCT is currently working closely with ACRP to explore possibilities for further collaboration on various projects. Options being considered include: seminars, educational sessions, audio conferences, certification programmes, forum activities for study coordinators, study monitors, project managers, QA/QC auditors, site managers, regulatory affairs professionals, and data managers among others. ACRP also includes the investigator in the training process and offers Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit hours covering a broad range of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) topics and human subjects protection issues.

Clinical Research and GCP Trainings Organized
Trainings |
Sponsors |
Participants |
Clinical research Professional Workshops in Beijing and Guangzhou |
AstraZeneca |
Clinical Research staffs in Hospitals of China |
Clinical Investigators' Training: |
Hospital Authority |
Investigators, research nurses and other health care staffs in the Hospital Authority |
Research Ethics Committee (REC) Training: |
Hospital Authority |
Members and administrators of Cluster Research Ethics Committees and other health care staffs in Hospital Authority |
Clinical Chinese Medicine Investigator's Training: |
Hospital Authority |
Investigators, research nurses and other health care staffs who are involved in Chinese Medicine Clinical Trials in the Hospital Authority |
Chinical Trial Methods: |
CK Life Sciences |
Clinical Research staffs in CK Life Sciences |
Clninical Research Training: |
AstraZeneca |
Clinical Research staffs in AstraZeneca |
Overview of GCP: |
Sanofi Adventis |
Clinical Research Associates n Sanofi Adventis |
GCP Training: |
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences of CUHK and Hong Kong Eye Hospital |
Investigators,research nurses and research coordinators in the Ophthalmology and Hong Kong Eye Hospital |
Overview of GCP: |
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, CUHK |
Investigators, research nurses and research coordinators in the department |
GCP Training: |
Department of Paediatrics, CUHK |
Investigators, research nurses and research coordinators in the department |
GCP Training: |
Department of Clinical Oncology, CUHK |
Investigators, research nurses and research coordinators in the department |
Clinical Trial Method Worksop: |
General participants |
Investigators, research nurses and research coordinators and pharmaceuticals personnel |
Society of Clinical Research Associate (SoCRA) First Educational Session: |
SoCRA and CCT |
Investigators, research nurses, study coordinators, Ethics Committee members and Pharmaceutical personnel |
Society of Clinical Research Associate (SoCRA) Second Educational Session: |
SoCRA and CCT |
Investigators, research nurses, study coordinators, Ethics Committee members and Pharmaceutical personnel |
Lunch-time seminar: "Clinical Trial Specimens Transportation Logistics" |
World Courier HK Ltd. |
Clinical research staffs and pharmaceutical personnel |
Lunch-time seminar: "Phase I Clinical Trials" & "Clinical Bio-equivalence Studies" |
World Courier HK Ltd. |
Clinical research staffs and pharmaceutical personnel |
Lunch-time seminar: "Examples of Three New Designs for Phase I Cancer Trials" |
CUHK |
Clinical research staffs and pharmaceutical personnel |
Lunch-time seminar: "Surrogate Outcomes and Handling Multiple Endpoints in Clinical Trials" |
Integrated Chinese Medicine Holdings Ltd. |
Clinical research staffs and pharmaceutical personnel |
Lunch-time seminar: "Repeated Measures in Randomized Controlled Trials" |
World Courier HK Ltd. |
Clinical research staffs and pharmaceutical personnel |
Lunch-time seminar: "Clinical Trial Protocol in Evaluating Traditional Chinese Medicine" |
Long Far Herbal Medicine Mfg (HKG) Ltd |
Clinical research staffs and pharmaceutical personnel |
Lunch-time seminar: "Usage of SAS in medical research" |
CUHK |
Clinical esearch staffs and pharmaceutical personnel |
Lunch-time seminar: "Applications of SAS Programs in Medical Genetics" |
CUHK |
Clinical research staffs and pharmaceutical personnel |
Lunch-time seminar: "The Usage of SAS in Medical Research" |
CUHK |
Clinical research staffs and pharmaceutical personnel |

